Wipeout: Human role in climate change removed from science report

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National Park Service officials have deleted every mention of humans’ role in causing climate change in drafts of a long-awaited report on sea level rise and storm surge, contradicting Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s vow to Congress that his department is not censoring science.

The research for the first time projects the risks from rising seas and flooding at 118 coastal national park sites, including the National Mall, the original Jamestown settlement and the Wright Brothers National Memorial. Originally drafted in the summer of 2016 yet still not released to the public, the National Park Service report is intended to inform officials and the public about how to protect park resources and visitors from climate change.

Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting obtained and analyzed 18 versions of the scientific report. In changes dated Feb. 6, a park service official crossed out the word “anthropogenic,” the term for people’s impact on nature, in five places. Three references to “human activities” causing climate change also were removed.

The 87-page report, which was written by a University of Colorado Boulder scientist, has been held up for at least 10 months, according to documents obtained by Reveal. The delay has prevented park managers from having access to the best data in situations such as reacting to hurricane forecasts, safeguarding artifacts from floodwaters or deciding where to locate new buildings.

https://www.revealnews.org/article/wipeout-human-role-in-climate-change-removed-from-science-report/

[democratisphere]

1. From fake reality to fake news and now fake science.

Mother Nature needs to do something really horrific and nasty to the GOP!

[Guilded Lilly]

2. Republican treachery knows no boundaries. They are the disease eating us alive from within. N/T

[riversedge]

3. @EpaScottPruitt LIED to Congress. Do Republicans care?? Read the entire article.